Maurizio Zollo, PhD

Professor Zollo joined Bocconi University in September 2007 and is the Dean’s Chaired Professor in Strategy and Sustainability at the Management and Technology department of Bocconi University and board member of the Center for Research in Innovation, Organization and Strategy (CRIOS). He is also a visiting professor at the Sloan School of Management at M.I.T. in the Management Science department.

A past president of the European Academy of Management (EURAM), he was also former editor of the European Management Review. In addition, professor Zollo served for a decade on the Executive Committee of the Academy of Business in Society, which he helped establish in 2003. For the Strategic Management Society he chaired the Innovation and Knowledge interest group and was a founder and chair of the Stakeholder Strategy interest group. A past member of Executive Committee of the strategy division of the Academy of Management, he also co-founded the Business & Society division of EURAM. In addition to his editorial role for the European Management Review, he also served as associate editor or editorial board member of six other leading academic journals in strategy and organization studies.

He holds at PhD in management from the Wharton School at University of Pennsylvania and a laurea degree in monetary economics from Bocconi University. Before starting his academic career, he was a strategy consultant at McKinsey & Co. and an investment banker at Merrill Lynch.